This Wednesday evening will provide hockey families with a fantastic opportunity to get hockey equipment at hugely slashed prices, or sell their own gear they’ve grown out of or are no longer using.   The Castlegar Minor Hockey (CMH) Association’s hockey swap has become a beloved tradition among the sports-minded in Castlegar, and organizer Leah […]

Trail residents will be coming together Sept. 29 for a festival-like event to clean up the Columbia. BC Rivers Day is celebrated province-wide, and the City of Champions is sponsoring a Shoreline Cleanup to help local people get involved with being good stewards of their waterways. City Councillor Eleanor Gattafoni Robinson,...

The Trail Smoke Eaters opened the 2013-14 BCHL season in style, picking up three of four weekend points at the Bauer BCHL Showcase. After a 4-3 overtime loss Friday against the Langley Rivermen, the Smokies earned their first victory of the season in emphatic style Sunday, outgunning the Cowichan Valley Capitals 6-2 at Prospera Centre. […]

Nelson CUPE Local 748 president Michelle Bennett is playing the waiting game as provincial-level bargaining for CUPE education members continued during the weekend in Vancouver. “I haven’t heard anything yet but we’re ready to go if we have to go,” Bennett said Sunday evening. “We’re hoping for the best, but planning for the worst,” Bennett […]

The Regional District of Central Kootenay has issued an advisory for Slocan City residents to conserve water after slides on Gwillim Creek caused turbidity inthe water system. “We had a slide of sand and mud into Gwillim Creek, where Slocan gets its water from, and Mulvy Creek, that flows into Gwillim,” said Brian Carruthers
Chief Administrative […]

Update: The West Shore RCMP wishes to advise that the second escapee from William Head Federal Correctional Facility, Dean Allen Benton, was located and taken into custody without incident at 10 a.m. Sept. 8. An officer on routine patrol located him in the 2000 block of Sooke Road in Colwood near the Hatley Park Memorial Park....

A single parent of two boys recently went public in a letter to the editor (Terrace Standard) with a detailed outline of the harsh financial reality facing her due to difficulties in collecting maintenance payments the boys’ father has been ordered to pay. Her reality is not unheard of, and the defaulting parent is not a...

By Suzy Hamilton, The Nelson Daily Members of the Duhamel Watershed Alliance are learning how to take  non-violent action this Saturday, as a means of halting Kalesnikoff Lumber’s logging plans in their watershed. And they are inviting the community at large to attend the all day workshop Saturday (September 7) at the North Shore Hall. […]

Columbia Basin groups wishing to help maintain or enhance environmental conditions in and around their communities are invited to submit project ideas to the Environmental Initiatives Program (EIP) of Columbia Basin Trust (CBT). The application deadline for large grants (projects up to $30,000) is October 15, 2013. The Johnsons...

Whether you’re looking to support a good cause, or just for a fun evening out filled with belly laughs and camaraderie, the Raise the Woof comedy tour is just what you need! Coming to Castlegar to help support our own Kootenay Animal Assistance Program (KAAP), Raise the Woof is actually a comedy tour whose entire […]